Re: Strange error after M-x package-list-packages

[Mateusz B <matcio1@gmail.com>]

On 08/30/2012 09:57 PM, Mateusz B wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my Emacs 24.1 installation was running fine until the following error 
> started showing every time I did M-x package-list-packages:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid hash table rehash size" 
> 1.0)
>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil 
> "/home/mateusz/emacs/emacs-24.2/lisp/finder-inf.el" nil t)  ; Reading 
> at buffer position 38650
> load-with-code-conversion("/home/mateusz/emacs/emacs-24.2/lisp/finder-inf.el" 
> "/home/mateusz/emacs/emacs-24.2/lisp/finder-inf.el" t t)
>   require(finder-inf nil t)
>   package-list-packages(nil)
>   call-interactively(package-list-packages t nil)
>   execute-extended-command(nil)
>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
>
> I downloaded and compiled 24.2 version to check if it occurs there and 
> it was there, right after compilation (and /src/emacs -Q). The bottom 
> of traces are a bit different actually, my normal installation runs 
> smex, but above everything is the same. What could it be? What to do now?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Earendil
  Got it. It was because I switch to my native, Polish locale. It uses 
commas instead of periods in numbers. But why Emacs is sensitive to it?

Regards,
Earendil